Sentence examples for a dramatic step toward from inspiring English sources

England took a dramatic step toward abolishing slavery on its soil in 1772, in a landmark case in which a man named James Somerset won his freedom.

We cannot know with certainty what Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister at the time and the architect of the Gaza disengagement, had in mind: A dramatic step toward peace?

Representative Sander Levin, a Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a highly influential voice among Democrats on trade, praised the agreement, calling it "a dramatic step toward changing from a one-way street to a two-way street for trade between the U.S. and South Korea".

LONDON — To many in Britain, the prosecutors' decision on Tuesday to lay criminal charges against eight of the most prominent figures in British tabloid journalism over the past decade was a dramatic step toward exacting accountability for the tangled web of wrongdoing in Rupert Murdoch's London newsrooms.

Complete genome sequencing of BRZ-VACV isolates and a sampling of clones from the original seed sample of NYCBH would be a dramatic step toward discerning the relationship between them.

But this will, in turn, inhibit such a government from taking any dramatic steps toward peace lest it be attacked by the right for acting without the support of the "Jewish majority".

Through the power of free markets, we will take a dramatic step forward for our children's health, which will also be a dramatic new step toward a stable climate.

Prompted by public outrage, federal officials took a dramatic step.

Finally, on Oct. 2, 2012, Houston took a dramatic step.

Beijing will not take such a dramatic step.

The supervisors say they already have taken a dramatic step.